The new platform features gridlike scalability, multiprotocol support and faster deduplication, Sepaton said. – Sepaton, which is making storage pooling an increasingly well-known feature
of new-generation storage tech, this week released its next-generation (version
6.0) storage software, which powers storage pools in its new S2100-ES2 Series
1910/2910 systems.
The new platform features gridlike scala…
SPRING RELEASE FOR GORILLA ROSE; TOUR STARTS FEB. 11
The legendary Kid Congo
Powers, co-founder of the Gun Club, guitarist for The Cramps and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, will be
releasing his new album with his group Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds this spring. Titled
Gorilla Rose, the album follows in the footsteps of the band’s 2009 Dracula Boots with
more ram-charged boogaloo, sleazy psychedelia and Chicano garage rock.
In The Red records is gearing up for
the new album by releasing a series of oddball limited edition vinyl-only records by the band. The first of these
releases dropped this week in the form of the “Five Greasy Pieces” subscription series. This is a very limited edition
(250 of each) series of five different singles each containing two brand new tracks. Starting in January In The Red
will be issuing one of these a month. The fifth and final single in the series will come with a handsome box in which
all five will be housed. The only way to obtain these singles is to buy a subscription on the In The Red website. In
March In The Red will be issuing a live LP by the band titled Live At The Prom which will be
another vinyl-only limited edition release available exclusively online.
Catch Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds on their North East tour this February.
KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS TOUR DATES
2.11 Jack Pot Saloon Lawrence, KS
2.12 Crosstown Station Kansas City, MO
2.13 Off Broadway Night Club St Louis, MO
2.14 MOTR Pub Cincinnati, OH
2.15 Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, OH
2.16 Howler’s Coyote Cafe Pittsburgh, PA
2.17 Bandito’s Burrito Lounge Richmond, VA
2.18 Comet Ping Pong Washington, DC
2.19 TBA New York, NY
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Venezuelan lawmakers have granted President Hugo Chavez broad powers to rule by decree for 18 months.
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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 14, 2010 – Intel Corporation today announced that its Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors, announced earlier this year, are at the heart of the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A. Located at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, Tianhe-1A contains 14,396 Intel processors accompanied by accelerator cards, and has demonstrated groundbreaking performance of 2.57 petaflops (quadrillions of calculations per second).
In partnership with Inspur, a computer manufacturer in China, Intel worked closely with the National Supercomputing Center and its technology partners to achieve this groundbreaking performance.
The 36th edition of the TOP500 list of supercomputers, as announced at SC10, Nov. 13-19 in New Orleans, shows that nearly 80 percent of the world’s top 500 systems have Intel processors inside. Such machines are increasingly featured in computers designed for geophysics, financial calculations and scientific research focusing on mainstream applications such as improving the safety of football players and enhancing medical imaging. According to the list, Intel chips now power four of the top six systems – in addition to the No. 1 system. Xeon® 5600 series processors are a key building block in the No. 3 system (Shenzhen), and the newly listed No. 4 system at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The New Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 series is featured in the Bull Supernode system at CEA, newly listed at No. 6. Overall, 398 new systems on the list feature Intel processors. According to the list, Intel processors are in 90 percent of the systems newly listed in 2010.
“Our Xeon processor roadmap continues to deliver hugely powerful supercomputers that are helping solve mankind’s greatest challenges,” said Rajeeb Hazra, general manager of Intel’s High Performance Computing organization. “Securing the top position on the Top500 is a source of great pride for Intel, and demonstrates the tremendous leaps in performance and versatility that our processors are delivering across a range of compelling workloads.”
Additional Top500 Success
In addition to the Tianjin supercomputer, 17,296 Intel chips power the No. 6 system on the list. The CEA system from Bull features the largest shared memory system built around the Xeon® 7500 series processor, achieving performance in excess of one petaflop.
Another notable supercomputer hails from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Featuring Xeon® 5600 series processors within an NEC/HP system, this No. 4-ranked supercomputer achieved 2.4 petaflops.
The semi-annual TOP500 list of supercomputers is the work of Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee. The complete report is available at www.top500.org.
Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) Demonstrations
During SC10, Intel conducted demonstrations showcasing the real-world capabilities of the recently announced Intel® MIC architecture. These included using Intel® MIC architecture as a co-processor running financial derivative Monte Carlo demonstrations that boasted twice the performance of those conducted with prior generation technologies. The Monte Carlo application for Intel® MIC was generated using standard C++ code with an Intel® MIC-enabled version of the Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2011 software development tools, demonstrating how applications for standard Intel CPUs can scale to future Intel® MIC products.
Intel also showcased breakthrough compressed medical imaging developed with Mayo Clinic on “Knights Ferry,” the first Intel MIC design and development kits. This demonstration used compressed signals to rapidly create high-quality images, reducing the time a patient has to spend having an MRI.
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Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, has backed a controversial bill to extend the powers of the country’s main intelligence agency, the FSB.
Under the legislation, the service would be able to issue formal warnings to anyone whose actions it believes could lead to a crime. Supporters say this will help tackle terrorism and extremism.
Now, more than ever, there is a growing need for reliable, alternative offshore energy sources and with Intel processors powering Mainstream Renewable Power’s offshore wind turbines throughout the UK, offshore wind has become a viable contender. Intel embedded technology enables increased control of turbines while reducing costs and providing real-time data processing, easy programmability and advanced pitch designs, which allow utilities to maintain a reliable stream of renewable energy to support future energy innovations.
JackBe, a maker of enterprise mashup software, has announced version 3.0 of its enterprise mashup platform, Presto. The new version enables developers to build enterprise app stores. – JackBe, a maker of enterprise mashup software, has announced
version 3.0 of its enterprise mashup platform, Presto.
A key feature of the new release is that it provides a
platform for creating internal enterprise application stores, JackBe officials
said. In addition, Presto 3.0 features a visu…
If a new security bill makes it through Congress, CIOs could be answering to a higher level of management than the CEO, chairman or board of directors. The new bill allows for emergency powers to be granted to the president of the United States when critical infrastructure is threatened. – The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010,
S.3480 as introduced by ranking Senate members of the Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee, is intended to create an Office of Cyber Policy
in the executive branch of the government, confirmed by the Senate and
ultimately…
A landmark bill drastically curtailing Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari’s powers that the lower house of parliament has passed could not be introduced in the upper house Friday as the required two-third majority of members was not present.
The 18th constitution amendment bill, transferring the bulk of the president’s powers to the prime minister’s office, will [...]
U.S. officials say five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany have agreed to begin drawing up new sanctions on Iran. The sanctions would come over its nuclear program.
The Indian companies made three tablets called MagicTile by EAFT, Compal tablet by Compal and the Adam tablet by Notion Ink which will be powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 250.
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At this week’s Game Developers Conference, Intel will feature an array of software tools, contests, developer resources and enhanced games, designed to help spur innovation in the gaming developer community. Attendees can check out a preview of the new Intel® Core™ i7 processor (codenamed “Gulftown”), Intel’s first 32nm, six-core processor with 12 computing threads, as well as the new Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers suite of software tools. Intel also announced the start of Level Up 2010, a worldwide game demo contest, and the next round of the Intel Atom Developer Challenge, where developers compete for the best applications in Intel AppUp Center beta.
NetChoice’s periodic list of what the coalition of e-commerce businesses considers to be bad for the Internet includes the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which would streamline the Federal Trade Commission’s rule-making procedures.
– Legislation approved by the U.S. House aimed at greater regulation of the
financial industry tops the latest edition of the iAWFUL (Internet Advocates’
Watchlist for Ugly Laws) Top 10 by NetChoice, a coalition of trade groups that
includes the IAC and the Electronic Retailing Association.
The …
Six world powers will meet behind closed doors in New York Saturday to discuss further sanctions against Iran and its nuclear program. The goal is to pressure Iran back to the negotiating table and to accept a U.N.-backed deal to send most of Iran’s low-enriched uranium overseas for refinement into a higher grade fuel needed for a nuclear research reactor.
Apple has quietly rolled out super-sized options for its Mac Pro desktop, including a 3.33GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon 3500 series processor and the ability to install the devices four hard drive bays with 2TB Serial ATA drives, for a total of 8TB. Although the new processors represent a notable power boost for Apple, processors capable of 3.0 GHz have been circulating publicly since 2007, when Intel debuted the X5365.
– For the low, low price of $1,200, Apple is now giving buyers
of its Mac Pro desktop the option of upgrading to a 3.33GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
3500 series processor. Those interested in massive amounts of drive space can
also upgrade the Mac Pros four hard drive bays with 2TB Serial ATA drives,
g…
While the Pakistan government has blamed the banned terror outfits such as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda for the devastating car bomb blast in Peshawar’s Meena Bazaar, in which over 100 people were killed, many Pakistanis believe it was countries like the US, India and Israel which were the real enemies of the state and not [...]
Brendon McCullum smashed a century and Scott Styris picked up three wickets to lead New Zealand to a 64-run win over Pakistan in the second one-day international on Friday. Powered on by opener McCullum’s 131, New Zealand posted 303 for eight and then bowled out Pakistan for 239 runs
Apple’s iPhone offers the greatest degree of customer satisfaction, beating out even the BlackBerry in rankings by enterprise and consumer customers, reports J.D. Powers. Traditional handset users voted for LG, followed by Motorola and Sanyo.
– Customers using smartphones for business purposes ranked the Apple iPhone above Research In Motions BlackBerry, reports J.D. Power and Associates.
The finding is part of three studies released Oct. 8: the 2009 Wireless Consumer Smartphone Customers Satisfaction Study, Vol. 2.; the 2009 Wireless …
